Kroger Food Pantry Assistant - 3/16/2021

3960 Brookham Drive,Grove City OH 43123

16 March, 2021

Description

Greet families and assist them as they shop at the Mid-Ohio Foodbank Kroger Community Pantry! Columbus Gives Back and the Mid-Ohio Food Bank need volunteers for the Kroger Food Pantry to take pre-packed bags of food "curb side" to our shoppers waiting in their cars. What: Pantry assistants are needed both inside the traditional pantry and helping us with curbside service. The Mid-Ohio Foodbank is shifting its model of distribution in their on-site pantry to pre-packaged boxes that are being delivered to customer vehicles, thereby minimizing community spread. Volunteers to help prepare these pre-packaged boxes with dairy, protein, produce, bread and shelf-stable food. What to Wear: Because of this new model, we encourage you to bring layers of clothing and any rain gear you might own (i.e. rain jackets, rain boots, etc.) We will continue serving our customers come rain or shine. We will be serving no matter what. You may be serving indoor, or outdoor (or both), please bring all necessary weather gear with you. Where: 3960 Brookham Drive, Grove City, OH 43123. Enter through the food pantry doors on the east side of the building (closest to I-71).Check in at the food pantry office to sign-in. Parking info: Please park in our west lot or our lot across the street from the main building. Our east lot is now used for our curbside pantry service model. Also, on occasion our west lot is used as an "overflow" area for cars lining up for our curbsite pantry. It won't be as bad as leaving a concert or sporting event, but it might take a little longer (: When: Tuesday, March 16th from 5:00pm - 8:00pm Event Leader(s): [email protected] COVID-19 Precautions: Due to the current stay-at-home advisory in place in Franklin county, Columbus Gives Back is limiting the number/type of events on our calendar through the end of the year. All Columbus Gives Back volunteers are required to wear face masks and observe social distancing as appropriate to complete volunteer tasks. Volunteers who are sick, especially with fever or the growing number of Covid-19 symptoms, should stay home. We highly recommend that our volunteers wash their hands, use hand sanitizer at the beginning and end of the event, and/or wear gloves. We will follow whatever safety policy our nonprofit partners have in addition to the safety precautions listed above. Any volunteers determined to neglect these precautions and put other volunteers or the people we serve at risk will be dismissed from the event. In an effort to keep our volunteers, event leaders, and non-profit partners safe we ask that each volunteer or event leader sign up for no more than one event in a seven-day period, in order to limit the number of individuals you come into contact with if you are exposed to Covid-19. If you were exposed before or test positive after having participated in a CGB event, please contact the event leader or reach out to [email protected] so that we can best support contact tracing efforts. About Mid-Ohio Foodbank Kroger Food Pantry: Established in 2012, the Kroger Community Food Pantry operates as a choice food pantry and is open to the community four days a week. Individuals and families with household incomes less than 200% of the Federal Poverty Level are eligible to receive food from the pantry. About Columbus Gives Back: We love Columbus, young professionals, and getting involved! Our mission is to connect young professionals across central Ohio and engage them in our communities through 35-40 social volunteer and philanthropic opportunities per month. #SocialTwist: Social Twists have been suspended until further notice, but typically we will also encourage volunteers to join us afterwards for food and drinks to better get to know the other cool folks in our group! Rather we encourage each of our volunteers to support local business during this time.